Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes are also getting some enhancements in SQL Server 2016. The most notable of these enhancements is the ability to be updated.

The most important performance-tuning technique available is having the needed indexes created on the tables to ensure that the SQL Server database engine is able to get the data that it needs to ...

Anyone running a clustered MS SQL setup on top of vSphere? This will be something new for us, but we have a database that can't go down ever. I remember reading about this in passing a couple of ...

Microsoft’s Bradley Ball dives into the inner workings of SQL Server indexing to help developers and DBAs speak the same ...

When this happens it is logged for every single index that is being written to. So for a table with nine non-clustered indexes on it there are 10 writes to the transaction log.

This is why "clustered index scans" are so painful, they are the equivalent of a table scan on any table which defines a clustered index.<BR><BR>The reason you are getting into deadlock is because ...